Emily Weiss Quotes

I like L.A. because of the light. The light makes me feel so good. It's really beautiful. And there's something about L.A. being so spread out that gives you a feeling of freedom. Light and freedom.

I always have my best thoughts on the toilet.

When I am traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep; it is on such occasions that ideas flow best and most abundantly.

I like to let things breathe.

I can't write unless I'm overlooking water.

I think that's one of the greatest gifts you get if you're successful at something like music or film or photography - any of the arts - you can sit there and think. It's so much fun to sit there and think and wonder about the world and the universe.

Sometimes I need to go for a walk for inspiration.

I like to go out on my bike. That's when I do my thinking. Two or three hours on the roads - that's when you get time, and you can think without problems.

Sometimes it's better to just be quiet, to not think of anything at all. Out of silence comes the greatest creativity.

I try to do a lot of yoga and meditation. I think now it's creating things in times of waiting.

Never did I think so much, exist so much, be myself so much as in the journeys I have made alone and on foot. Walking has something about it which animates and enlivens my ideas. I can hardly think while I am still; my body must be in motion to move my mind.

She felt some measure of relief knowing that in the very least, on the open road she would have some time to think.

I've never learned to drive because I get lots of ideas when I'm a passenger in a car. I love to get in a car with a driver and just think and work things out.

Everything comes to me while I'm sitting on the pot.

I love what I do: there is no pressure. The music doesn't like pressure.

I do fish. I think there is a connection between thinking and fishing mostly because you spend a lot of time up to your waist in water without a whole lot to keep your mind busy.

I like to take walks in the park by myself, where no one can bother me and I can think.

I believe in empty spaces; they're the most wonderful thing.

Night is the mother of thoughts.

Music is not a work for me - it's a form of meditation, and you don't need to work hard for it.

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

Now painting is different. It's something recollected in tranquility.

Knitting is very conducive to thought. It is nice to knit a while, put down the needles, write a while, then take up the sock again.

I do some of my best thinking while pulling weeds.

I read a lot; fiction and non-fiction are the mediums I find most edifying and inspiring. I watch movies and listen to music and take lots and lots of walks. Nature is a nice reset button for me, it's how I get a lot of thinking done.